“Don’t blow it - good planets are hard to find.” -Quoted in Time
“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.” -Henrik Tikkanen
“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” -Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” -Marshall McLuhan, 1964
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.” -Mohandas K. Gandhi
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” -Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923
“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” -Robert Orben
“It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.” -Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990
“Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.”
-Alan M. Eddison
3 responses so far ↓
1 Dana // Jan 18, 2008 at 8:08 am
Where did you find these? I love Tikkanen’s, reminds me of the proverb ‘the land was not given to us by past generations, it has been borrowed from future generations’ (or something like that…)
2 admin // Jan 18, 2008 at 10:00 am
Hi Dana, I really have found them all over the place. I figured they would look nice next to each other. I’m glad you like. Thanks for visiting.
3 Lani // May 29, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I love these quotes; really motivating. I saved all of them on my desktop! My essay for school is turning out great because of these quotes! Thank you from a proud tree-hugger! :]
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